Guests at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

Description:

View of guests at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "More than 700 distinguished guests assembled on the floor of the Packard Rolls-Royce assembly building. They heard an international radio broadcast dedicating the first Packard-built Rolls, which was started by a voice impulse from England."

Details

Resource ID:

na043396

Subject:

Audiences--Michigan--Detroit

Merlin engines

Rolls-Royce engines

Factories--Michigan--Detroit

Packard Motor Car Company

Photographic prints

Date Issued:

1941-08-02

Format:

1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.

Member of:

National Automotive History Collection

Filing Location:

Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

Note (Content):

Part of a group of photographs depicting "a forty-week period wherein the Packard Motor Car Company brought the Rolls-Royce Merlin fighting engine from blue print to production."

Rights:

Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.